noun
genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another
• Syn: ↑Helicteres
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sterculiaceae, ↑family Sterculiaceae, ↑sterculia family
• Member Meronyms: ↑screw tree
Useful english dictionary. 2012.